The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Crown Prince of Germany sells
one thousand quarts of milk every day
from his farm at Panetz, near Berlin.
The Prince is cowboy.
"A Goshen On. W electrician has
invented machine by which the tenn
perature of the atmosphere can be FORE
told at any and all parts of the country.
Troy Times.
Many think that more money can
be made in California raising nuts than
fruit-the former keep and carry so
well. The English walnut is the favored
California nut. ~
twenty years ago water was not
allowed to Austrian soldiers while on
the march. Now an unlimited supply
is permitted. and to this fact is attrib-
mted the.r freedom from sunstroke
during, this years autumn maneuvers,
wne.n the heat was extraordinary.
"A novelty of the amusement season
IN New Orleans the coming winter will
be white balls, a custom borrowed from
Spain and France. All the women
must attend dressed in white only,
with white ribbons and white laces and
fiowers.--N. D. Times.
II regret to state" said a college
student, reporting to his literary so
cIety the condition of its library room.
THAT one of the back shutters has been
busted of, and that the burst of Lewis
Cass has lost an ear" He wondered
why the society laughed at its own loss.
IN. Z. Mail.
American Shakers, who number
about 4 600. are worried over their own
wealth, which is valued at about S12,-
100000 The elders begin to feel like
monopolists, and that the possession of
so much property is contrary to the
gospel scheme which they desire to
follow Chicago Inter Ocean.
Nashville has citizen who, in
dress and general conduct. appears to
DE perfectly sane, but each morning
he gets up early, fills small bag with
food, little tobacco and some stones.
goes to the river and throws it in.
Asked why he does this, he says:
''Brother can't get any thing to eat
under the water. One of his brothers
was drowned. Nashville American.
One of the New York elevated
roads has been compelled to pay seven
thousand dollars damages to man
whose premises 1t passes. He claimed
the main nuisance of the elevated enter
prise was the ''momentary flashes OF
darkness" which its passing trains cast
>inia his windows. The legal light on
the flashes of darkness won the case.
&9attied philosophy and the corporation.
44t~Y Tribune.
TO such degree of perfection and
effectiveness has astronomical photo
graphy now reached that among its
achievements is photograph Of the
cluster in Perseus. showing stars down
to the thirteenth magnitude. In this
particular case the negative was OBJ
tanned in fifty minutes with 6-3-inch
object glass of S3-inch focal length. the
view being subsequently enlarged four
times and reproduced by hello engrav-
jng.-N y Sun.
An editor out West remarks that
he has good reason to believe that
newspaper men become white mules
after death, because the expression of
the countenance of white mule has
often reminded him of some deceased
brother journalist. especially the de-
spondent droop of the lower lip. He
also calls attention to the fact that
editors and white mules seldom die and
are awful hard to kill.
The grand object of many visitors
to the fair seemed to be the accumula-
ton of as many Advertising circulars
rs possible. They went about with
their arms fun, and one stout lady
ACTUALLY carried market basket into
Which she carefully laid any bit of
printed paper offered her. Perhaps
she collected enough paper to pay her
admission fee, or at least to set her up
in tin dippers for the winter. Boston
Correspondent.
Some one has looked into the flu.
ture and seen the ''ship of the next
He says that this steamer
will apply its motive power in more
rational method than the propeller
screw represents, and that the crank
shaft will be done away with. The
water will be conducted not on a cir
cult around the ships body, but right
through it lengthwise on straight
line, and the water rejected at the
stern will steer the vessel. Chicago
Tribune
-Ayoung woman picking her way
across the railroad tracks in Indianap-
oils saw a brakeman wave his hand
to her from the top of departing
freight train. She smiled sweetly and
waved back. Then the brakeman
waved more violently, and the girl
smiled more sweetly and stopped and
tried to get out her handkerchief. to
fittingly carry on the Irritation. The
next thing she knew she was yanked
off the track by . fIagman just in time
to escape a backing train which the
brakeman had seen and tried in vain
to warn her of.-Indianapolis Journal